Object Number | 2003-63-53 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Metal | Wood |
Description | Spear with a long, thin, socketed blade. The blade has a pronounced, medial ridge with series of horizontal marks toward the base and middle. The wooden shaft is sparsely painted with longitudinal lines in black and a thickened section of wood with a wide, copper-colored, metal ring above the ferrule. The short ferrule has circumferal bands etched above a flared, flattened, fin-like end with a copper-colored disc affixed toward the bottom. The fin-like end has a hammered texture. |
Length | 106.5 cm |
Width | 3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1994.X.9955 - Other Number |
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